Modernity, Islam, and secularism in Turkey: bodies, places, and time
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Main Author: Çınar, Alev (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis [u.a.] University of Minnesota Press 2005
Series:Public worlds 14
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Abstract:"What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Cinar's groundbreaking examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the threshold of East and West, of religious and secular nationalism, explores modernity through daily practices and the social construction of identity and political agency in relation to nationalism, secularism, and Islam. Focusing on developments of the 1990s, Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey argues that Islamist ideology generated an alternative modernization project, which applied the same strategies and techniques as that of the modernizing state to produce and institutionalize its own version of an equally thorough nationalist program. Using local details and debates - including a fascinating discussion of veiling as symbolic of both the "liberation" of Western appearance and the Islamists' struggle to rescue their nation's culture - Cinar reveals modernity as a transformative intervention in bodies, places, and times." -- Book cover.
Item Description:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
Physical Description:VIII, 199 S. Ill.
ISBN:0816644101
081664411X
9780816644100
9780816644117